Alan,
Alan McDougall wrote on Sep 4th, 2008 at 8:39am:If souls are an energy vibration of different densities, then this energy must drain off and the soul equivalent of sleep becomes a necessity, to charge their respectful batteries so to speak. Entropy then rules even in the afterlife or does it?
If we carry the analogy of energy draining out of batteries that needs to be recharged a little further how about we examine the concept of the "sole battery charger."
I can charge up the batteries in my laptop computer while the computer is turned off, or to follow the analogy, while the laptop computer is sleeping. If I unplug the charger before I wake the computer up the batteries will drain as you say and need to be recharged after the computer is turned off later.
But, if I do not disconnect the charger after waking up the computer to computer batteries will never run down and I will never need to put the computer to sleep to charge them.
So we might say if it is possible for the soul to find a way to remain plugged into the power source while it is awake, it would never need to sleep to recharge. I wonder how soul would do that?
Alan McDougall wrote on Sep 4th, 2008 at 8:39am: Entropy then rules even in the afterlife or does it?
Entropy can be said to "rule" within a system in which all forces operate to randomize any "organized" form of energy within that system. However, if what we call the soul is truly eternal there must be a force that does not have the effect of randomizing the soul's energy within that system. If I had to guess I would say whatever that force is "rules" the system we call our afterlife.
Bruce